Red Light District (1898? From NYC or Texas?)

[William Salmon]

Waco did have one of the first red-light districts in Texas. It was
referred to as "the reservation", from the 1870s.

> Google Books full view gives an apparently correctly identified scan of
> Bran the
> Iconoclast (1898), apparently reprinted columns by William Cowper Brann;  it
> includes on p. 452 "I am not, of course, speaking of the consorts of common
> courtesans, of human hogs; but of the men who people the red-light district
> with their cast-off ..." [no city specified, on brief look].
> The book's introduction mentions "Brann's Iconoclast" was printed starting in
> July, 1891 in Austin and revived in Feb., 1895 in Waco. He wrote for other
> papers too.
>
> Stephen
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~Will Salmon

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